Boards Quote by Arthur Koestler

I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved…

— Garry Kasparov

I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like wizard's chess…

— Maurice Ashley

The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me,…

— Ashot Nadanian

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an…

— Judit Polgar

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

“We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?”

— Noah Boyd

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

— Emanuel Lasker

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

— Stanley Ellin

Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

— Boris Spassky